Necktie and collar holder



B. J. McDOWELL.

NECKTIE AND COLLAR HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 4, 1920- Patented Feb. 15, 1921.

INVENTOR BYRON J. MCDOWELL, OF SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.

NECK'IIE AN D COLLAR HOLDER.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BYRON J. MoDowELL, acitizen of the United States, residing at San Diego in the county of SanDiego and State of lalifornia, have invented a new and useful Necktieand Collar Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices on which a necktie can be properlyplaced without that the necktie has to be put around the neck of theuser.

One of the objects of this invention is to properly fold and arrange anecktie without any device but so asto fit over the device disclosed inthis application so that any number of neckties may be folded andarranged and in such arranged condition can be placed or replaced on thedevice one at a time.

Another object is to provide a device which can be replaced from one tieto another without that the ties have to be undone.

Another object is to provide a device which will firmly hold and engagea tie fully arranged and ready to be put to the neck of the user.

Another object is to provide a device which will support a so-calledsoft collar in a smooth upright manner when the device with a tie isplaced in position.

Another object is to provide a device which will properly engage thelower corners of a soft collar in a similar manner as a double button orsmall chain or other similar devices usually placed into the buttonholes in the outer flaps of such soft collars and disposed below the tieso that the tie will be tightly held between the folds of the softcollar and so that the lower front corners of the soft collar willproperly en-- ga e and lie over the tie.

ther objects will appear from the following description and appendedclaims as well as from the accompanying drawlng, in which- The figure isa front elevation of the device with a tie and a collar outlined indotted lines in proper relation to the device.

The center portion 1 is formed to engage over a button in a shirt andcollar for holding the device and thereby the tie in proper relation tothe collar and shirt. The whole device is preferably made of spring-likema terial, as steel or brass wire, or any other Specification of LettersPatent.

Patented Feb. 15, 1921.

Application filed February 4, 1920. Serial No. 356,222.-

tie, the loop portions being naturally also back of the tie. Theportions 4 serve also to support a soft collar when the device is usedwith a soft collar. Soft collars naturally collapse easily and thennaturally ap pear untidy. With this device, the loop portion 1 engagingover the shirt button, and the portions 4 projecting upwardly to closebelow the upper edges of the'collar, any soft collar is naturally heldup and supported with the upper edge a corresponding distance above theshirt button, as will easily be understood. The portions 5 and 6 arebent so as to clamp the tie properly between these portions. When usingthis device, the tie is folded and arranged so that the body portion 7of the tie has two straps 8 and 9 extending sidewise in the directionswhere such straps usually go around the neck of the user, but thesestraps go back into and through the body ortion of the tie so as to forma loop on eac such strap end 8 and 9. These loops 8 and 9 of the tie areslipped over the portions 6 of the device between the portions 5 and 6.

With the portions 4, 5 and 6 disposed between the folds or flaps of thecollar so as to form the support for the collar, the terminations 10 arebent upon themselves to be clamped or slipped over the lower corners oredges of the outer flaps of the collar as indicated at 11. This engagingof the outer flaps of the collar 12 at the outer flaps 11 gives the sameor a similar appearance as if the links or double buttons or pins areplaced in the button holes, usually provided near the lower edges ofsuch soft collars, or as if a pin or similar device is clamped orfastened to the lower edges of such collars,

to. keep such lower corners neatly arranged over the tie, as will easilybe understood.

When used with other than soft collars,

such extensions or portions 10 are left off and the device ends orterminates at a suitable point near or below the portions 6, as

will easily be understood without ,further illustration. p

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. In a device of the classdescribed, a

7 center portion made of springmaterial in a loop form to removably 'fitover a shirt button, the said loop narrowing down on both sides ofthe-shirt button close to the supporting members for a collar, thecenter proper adapted to be opened for disengaging from a shirt buttonby a pressing centrally of the upwardly extending ,termina tions of thedevice.

2. In a device of the class described, a 7

center portion made of spring material 1n a loop-form to removably fitovera shirt 'button, further portions extending upwardly and sidewise'forming clamping. members for tie straps and forming the supportingmeans for a soft collar, and still further portions being theterminations of the device having clamping ends adapted to en gage overthe outer edge of the outer flaps of a collar, all substantially asdescribed;-

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my, invention I have signedmy name in the presence of two subscribin witnesses.

, BYRON J. oDOW'ELLl' Witnesses: s V

. O'r'ro H. Knonenn, Jnssm A. MANOQK.

